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  • A Four-Step Maintenance Plan to Keep Your Relationship Strong

    A Four-Step Maintenance Plan to Keep Your Relationship Strong2

    Early on, relationships are easy. Everything is new and exciting. You go on dates, take trips, spend time together and intentionally cultivate experiences that allow your relationship to grow. Then, somewhere along the way, life happens. One study on married couples in their 30s and 40s found that their marital quality declined over the course

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  • A Formula for Creating Wimpy, Unimaginative Kids

    A Formula for Creating Wimpy, Unimaginative Kids0

    Have you ever compared your childhood with that of your own kids? Clint Edwards recently did that in an article for The Washington Post, and what he found was rather alarming. For Edwards, childhood meant riding bikes extensive distances and having pick-up playtimes with any other children who were mutually roaming the neighborhood. For Edwards’

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  • A Former Teacher’s Smart Advice on How to Fix Education

    A Former Teacher’s Smart Advice on How to Fix Education0

    An interesting article in The Washington Post caught my eye this morning. As author Jennifer Patterson explains, she and her husband did something unusual this year when they allowed their daughter to skip second grade. Such a decision, Patterson goes on to explain, was based on her daughter’s desire to be challenged in her schoolwork.

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  • A Former English Professor Explains Why She Homeschools Her Children

    A Former English Professor Explains Why She Homeschools Her Children0

    Twenty years ago, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield was an up-and-coming professor of English literature at Syracuse University. While specializing in Critical Theory, she also headed up Syracuse’s Center for Women’s Studies. Through various events, however, Ms. Butterfield left her position at Syracuse and eventually began homeschooling her own children, all of whom are adopted. Given her

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  • A Fond Farewell From Annie

    A Fond Farewell From Annie56

    In the middle of my senior year in college, a dear friend and mentor approached me one evening and mentioned a startup organization called Intellectual Takeout that was looking for college students to do research and writing internships. “You should apply!” he said. I smiled externally but rolled my eyes internally. “You don’t know me

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  • A Flawed Impeachment for ‘Incitement’

    A Flawed Impeachment for ‘Incitement’0

    President Donald Trump was hastily impeached by the House for a second time on Wednesday for “inciting insurrection.”  Legislators accused Trump of egging on, instigating, and inciting his supporters to engage in insurrection and overthrow the U.S. government, starting with a violent attack on Congress. Uttering phrases such as, “You will never take back our

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